What's the difference between fragrant and sweet?

Fragrant


Definition:

  • (a.) Affecting the olfactory nerves agreeably; sweet of smell; odorous; having or emitting an agreeable perfume.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The booming Bollywood music beckoned a stream of families, wearing ornate saris and sharp kurtas, fragrant plates of samosa chaat in hand, toward the stage, replete with an extravagant display of lights and visuals.
  • (2) Recipe supplied by Patrick Hanna, L'Entrepot, lentrepot.co.uk Clams with leek, fennel and parsley Though you could add a twirl of al dente spaghetti or linguine to this dish, it is the fragrant, briny broth that delights – better with a crusty loaf and a spoon.
  • (3) I like the challenges that come with those that thrive in such adverse conditions, and there are plenty: woodland species that make the most of what little sunlight hits the leaf litter; ferns that like dripping cave mouths and cliff faces cast in gloom; and small shrubs that eke out a living under bigger things, such as butcher’s broom ( Ruscus aculeatus ) and fragrant sweet box ( sarcoccoca ).
  • (4) Photograph: Pasona Group At the Tokyo headquarters of the Pasona Group , a staffing company, tomatoes dangle from the ceiling, herbs grow fragrantly in meeting rooms and a rice paddy is the lobby centerpiece.
  • (5) He appeared to be saying that everyone who worked for HBOS was decent, honest and fragrant.
  • (6) The ASP drink is not only effective but also fragrant, tasty, refreshing and thirst quenching, and it appears to have no side effects.
  • (7) Intranasal injections of a fragrant solution of 2-methyl-2-thiazoline elicited significant heart rate decelerations in late pregnancy fetal sheep, while the injection of a control fluid (isotonic saline) had no effect.
  • (8) "So you are the fragrant Mrs Copperfield's incumbrance," he said to me.
  • (9) Toast the coriander, cumin and fennel seeds in a dry frying pan until fragrant.
  • (10) The broth is glorious: fragrant but subtle, rich but not oily, and the perfect balance between spicy, sour and sweet.
  • (11) Satire can provide a fragrant drop of vanilla essence to the custard pie of protest.
  • (12) After that, let’s start to seriously clean up periods, and I don’t mean fragrantly.
  • (13) Add the chilli bean paste and stir-fry for a minute or so until the oil is red and fragrant.
  • (14) Serves 4 1 tbsp vegetable oil 1 tsp crushed garlic 4 tomatoes, quartered 1 tsp gia vi (or a mix of 2 parts sugar, 1 part black pepper, 1 part salt and 1 part garlic powder) 1.5 litres water 3 rhubarb stalks, cut into 3cm chunks 2 tbsp fish sauce 50g okra, halved, deseeded and cut into 1cm rounds ½ pineapple, cut into 2cm chunks 1 tsp sugar 1 spring onion, chopped 1 tbsp chopped coriander 1 In a saucepan, heat the oil and stir in the garlic, cooking until fragrant.
  • (15) Surrounded by sea and hills, rowan trees, hawthorn and holly, it had a fragrant compost loo-with-a-view.
  • (16) 3.20am BST Heat 85-87 Spurs, 6:43 remaining in the 4th quarter Parker crumples to the floor on what's a clear flagrant foul on Mario Chalmers, a deliberate dirty elbowing, upheld as fragrant 1 by Danny Crawford, but the Spurs might be out their best player here.
  • (17) 2 Add the ginger, onion and green chillies, and fry until fragrant.
  • (18) There are my roast tomatoes with crumbs and thyme, Russell Norman's broad bean, mint and ricotta bruschette, Fuchsia Dunlop's fragrant sea bream, and a beet bourguignon from The Green Kitchen.
  • (19) The Clonakilty black pudding – relatively dry, crumbly, full of oatmeal, fragrantly spiced – is very tasty.
  • (20) With a toddler in tow, après ski for me meant a quick beer then a swim at our hotel – the Lechtaler Hof, smallest and sweetest of Warth’s handful of family-owned hotels – followed by fantastic five-course dinners that might include fragrant dumpling-and-wild-chive soup, roast lamb and divine fruit tarts.

Sweet


Definition:

  • (superl.) Having an agreeable taste or flavor such as that of sugar; saccharine; -- opposed to sour and bitter; as, a sweet beverage; sweet fruits; sweet oranges.
  • (superl.) Pleasing to the smell; fragrant; redolent; balmy; as, a sweet rose; sweet odor; sweet incense.
  • (superl.) Pleasing to the ear; soft; melodious; harmonious; as, the sweet notes of a flute or an organ; sweet music; a sweet voice; a sweet singer.
  • (superl.) Pleasing to the eye; beautiful; mild and attractive; fair; as, a sweet face; a sweet color or complexion.
  • (superl.) Fresh; not salt or brackish; as, sweet water.
  • (superl.) Not changed from a sound or wholesome state. Specifically: (a) Not sour; as, sweet milk or bread. (b) Not state; not putrescent or putrid; not rancid; as, sweet butter; sweet meat or fish.
  • (superl.) Plaesing to the mind; mild; gentle; calm; amiable; winning; presuasive; as, sweet manners.
  • (n.) That which is sweet to the taste; -- used chiefly in the plural.
  • (n.) Confectionery, sweetmeats, preserves, etc.
  • (n.) Home-made wines, cordials, metheglin, etc.
  • (n.) That which is sweet or pleasant in odor; a perfume.
  • (n.) That which is pleasing or grateful to the mind; as, the sweets of domestic life.
  • (n.) One who is dear to another; a darling; -- a term of endearment.
  • (adv.) Sweetly.
  • (v. t.) To sweeten.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Previous attempts to purify this enzyme from the liquid endosperm of kernels of Zea mays (sweet corn) were not entirely successful owing to the lability of partially purified preparations during column chromatography.
  • (2) Try the sweet potato falafel, quinoa, roast vegetables, harissa and sumac yogurt ($23).
  • (3) Imported sweets and liqueurs were homogenized and extracted with ethyl acetate.
  • (4) It is concluded that the development was influenced by several factors, such as different snacking habits and access to sweets, the study per se, and xylitol-induced effects.
  • (5) The halfwidth of the fluorescence emission band increases in parallel with the loss of sweetness.
  • (6) A sweet-talking man in a suit who enlists the most successful barrister in town holds remarkable sway, I’ve learned.
  • (7) Rather than ruthlessly efficient, I have found them sweet and a bit hopeless."
  • (8) The sensitivity of the taste system to the various qualities was, in decreasing order, salty, sweet, sour, and bitter.
  • (9) A case of Sweet's syndrome developed as a presenting feature of multiple myeloma.
  • (10) Though the thought of a Panama team listening to the USA team huddle coyly sharing their secrets is a rather sweet thought.
  • (11) The sweetness of monellin under these two types of denaturing conditions, temperature and pH, can be predicted by the fluorescence emission spectrum of the protein.
  • (12) Potential, polarization, and pH measurements were performed before and after Coca-Cola and orange juice rinsing and intake of sweets, which were used as test products.
  • (13) A solid-phase extraction method with a strong anion exchanger was used to determine these compounds in sweet wines and in grape musts.
  • (14) Sweet flavours were often correctly identified, with the exception of egg nog, but savoury flavours were recognised less frequently.
  • (15) Thus, the B center of the Shallenberger A-H,B theory of sweetness is best regarded as being -SO3- rather than -SO2- for sulfamates.
  • (16) in Shibuya-ku goes a little easier on the sugary sweet styles.
  • (17) Two subjects with Ph-positive chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) in whom pustular Sweet's syndrome was diagnosed are reported.
  • (18) In this paper, the sweetness receptor is refined with use of the shapes of 3-anilino-2-styryl-3H-naphtho[1,2-d]imidazolesulfonate (sweet) and of 3-anilino-2-phenyl-3H-naphtho[1,2-d]imidazolesulfonate (tasteless), two large and almost completely rigid tastants.
  • (19) It was very sweet, really nice, but it was like an obituary.
  • (20) Diluted elements of his style were all over the pop charts: Sweet, Mud, Alvin Stardust.